A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness.
To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
To bow or crouch in servility.
To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
Inducing awkwardness, embarrassment, or secondhand embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.
A girth or belly-band for a horse's harness.
A stretch of fishing-lines shot in the water.
A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of an animal.
A leather tie; a short wagon rope.
Possessing or indicating lack; deficient.